National Affairs: In New York

The adherents of aridity in the state with the largest population last
week fell to quarreling among themselves over the best way to prevent
the re-election of Wet Senator James W. Wadsworth. A small but earnest
group of old-time reformers had gathered in a Methodist office
building in Manhattan as the revived Prohibition Party to nominate one
Franklin W. Cristman, banker-lawyer, as well as candidates for state
offices (TIME, June 21). Other Drys, notably the local branch of the
Anti-Saloon League, were vexed. They had already planned the gesture
of nominating Mr. Cristman...